The politics of diversity in Europe
By: edited by Gavan Titley and Alana Lentin
Publisher: Council of Europe
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Strasbourg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9789287161710
Subjects: Congresses; Ethnic relations; Multiculturalism; Cultural pluralism; Group identity; Political participation; Etnische betrekkingen; Overheidsbeleid; Mensenrechten
Description: This publication sets out to examine the apparent acceptance of diversity as a fact and value, by offering a countervailing assessment of diversity; seeing it less as a unifying social imaginary and more as a cost-free form of politics attuned to the needs of late capitalist, consumer societies. The introduction distinguishes between 'diversity polities' - emerging from a range of critiques of social power - and the "politics of diversity", a depoliticized celebration of difference that replicates the problems of multiculturalism without the benefits of the overt ideological engagement that multiculturalism has provoked. The studies gathered in this publication are embedded in 10 different national contexts. They track dimensions of diversity in education, social services, jurisprudence, parliamentary proceedings and employment initiatives, and assess their significances for the social actors who must negotiate these frameworks in their daily experience.--Publisher's description.
Notes: "This publication is an edited collection of articles from the research seminar entitled 'Diversity, human rights, participation' ... held in Strasbourg in May 2006"--P. [3].

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: More Benetton than barricades? : the politics of diversity in Europe / Alana Lentin and Gavan Titley; title: The world made to mean. Diversity and equality : an ambiguous relationship / Julie Ringelheim; title: The discursive dimension of human rights : a discourse analysis of contemporary Polish debates / Vanessa Trapani; title: Cultural difference and the politics of recognition : the case of the Roma of Cyprus / Kyriaki Iacovidou; title: Discourse at work, working through discourse. Notions of participation and culture in political struggles against exclusion and their consequences : the Catalan case / Joan Cortinas Muñoz; title: Precarious trajectories : migrant youth regimes in Greece / Dimitri Alvaro ... [et al.]; title: Learning from history : young Jewish men's reactions to anti-Semitism and immigrant youth in contemporary France / Ofer Nordheimer Nur; title: Reconstructing the international intervention discourse as "politics of difference" : achieving full participation in Kosovo refugee camps / Madalina Gligor; title: Implementations, ambiguities, possibilities. Black young people in the UK : charting the tensions of relativism and dogmatism in social service praxis / Momodou Sallah; title: Learning to be aware of culture or learning to increase participation? / Lene O. Mogensen; title: The impact of human rights education in school : the Croation experience / Katarina Batarilo; title: Towards a theory of inclusive participative citizenship / Dina Kiwan.